Forth

sample

2 + 2

2
2
+
.

result 4

9 % 4

9
4
/mod
.s

result 1 2

square word

: sq dup * ;
2 sq
.s

result 4

hello world

: hw ." hello world" ;
hw

result hello world

integer square root

-1
variable x
256 x !
variable g
1 g ! 
: r x @ g @ / ;
: a g @ + 2/ g ! ;
: t r a g @ .s ;
: c over over = . ;
t c
...
t c

result

t c <2> -1 128 0  ok
t c <3> -1 128 65 0  ok
t c <4> -1 128 65 34 0  ok
t c <5> -1 128 65 34 20 0  ok
t c <6> -1 128 65 34 20 16 0  ok
t c <7> -1 128 65 34 20 16 16 -1  ok

integer square root

: a + 2/ ;
: sq dup * ;
: sc 2dup sq < if 0 else 2dup 1+ sq < then ;
: nsqrt 1 begin sc if swap drop exit then 2dup / a again ;
100 nsqrt .

result 10

links

http://amforth.sourceforge.net/

AmForth, Floating point and ATmega implementation:

• https://www.physics.wisc.edu/~lmaurer/projects/FloatingAway/FloatingAway.html#biblio-31
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20140411013704/https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lnmaurer/web/FloatingAway/amforth-5.1.tar.gz

Pygmy Forth: http://pygmy.utoh.org/riscy/